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On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:45:07 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 6/2/13 11:38 AM, wrote:

This bottled water thing is a red herring.
People pump a lot more water on their lawns than all the bottled
water
producers use combined.
Then you have golf courses that pump 10 million gallons a month or
more. (for every 18 holes)
I just had to pull my well and add 20 feet of pipe because the
water
dropped again. In 1990 it was free flowing in 2001 it was 13 feet
down, now it is more like 35 feet down.

We don't drink "bottled water." Or city water, for that matter. We're
on
a fairly deep well, I don't remember exactly how deep, between 250
and
350 feet, I think. The water tests okay and tastes okay. I'd prefer
to
be on city water, but the county fathers don't want to extend city
water
and sewage into most of the more newly developed areas.

In any event, Florida has and will continue to have serious issues
with
potable ground water. Being an environmental engineer in Florida has
to
be a pretty good job.

Bottled water is pretty popular here because the well water is not
really that good. You can aerate it (to remove H2S) and run it through
an R/O to make it potable. My biggest use of bottled water is in my
hurricane prep but we do keep a bunch on the boat because it keeps
better than tap water.
It is about the time of year when we pack every nook and cranny of the
freezers with bottles of water and eat down the food.
If you treat bottled water like a soft drink or a beer, I still do not
see the problem.

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I could bring myself to drinking the well water we had in Florida.
Even after having a complete, new water conditioning system (the
carbon filter tank and some other kind of filter) and having it
professionally maintained monthly, the water still had a strange,
sulfur-like odor. I had a small R/O system but the water it produced
was totally tasteless and bland. All our drinking water was bottled
... purchased in the 5 gallon jugs and dispersed through a
cooler/heater.

I was told the Florida house had a "shallow well" meaning 20 ft or
less. The well we installed here in MA for general lawn maintenance
and for the horses is 520 ft deep and it's pure, clean, odorless
water, fit for drinking without any chemicals or conditioning needed.

Well water in Florida is touch and go, you can go from one place with
decent well water to another a couple of miles away and it will be
sulfur or iron water.